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Comcast Uses Twitter?
C.C. Chapman shared his quite interesting experience of Comcast monitoring Twitter for negative comments and scheduling a technician visit in response to his post about his lackluster HD picture during a Celtics game. I must say that I’m rather impressed. This is the first time that I’ve ever heard of monolithic brands effectively using social […]
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Customer Relationships Transcend Outright Blunders
I spoke with a lawyer whom I’d advised a while back about how his efforts to reconnect with some of his best clients were going and he told me a fascinating story. He’s been meeting them for breakfast or lunch and asking them how they’d like his firm to improve and what they thought about […]
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5 Mistakes in Measuring Loyalty
Are you measuring customer loyalty because it is “the right thing to do”? I spoke with a company this last week that was doing exactly that, except that because there was no unifying strategy to their efforts to do so they weren’t able to make any sense out of their data. Their data had been […]
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Recommending someone whom I never met?
Why would I write a letter of recommendation for someone whom I’m never met? I just got a request via LinkedIn: Dear Curtis, I’m sending this to ask you for a brief recommendation of my work that I can include in my LinkedIn profile. If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks in advance […]
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What happened to “That was Easy!”?
The Customer Experience is All in the Details. I’m trying to order manilla folders from Staples, which should be pretty simple, right? It was easy to find them on the website, but when it came time to order, it was miserable.
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How Can Customers Provide Competitive Advantage?
Someone recently asked me, “How can customer research provide competitive advantage?” There are far too many ways! Here are a couple: Let your customers tell you what your competitive advantage really is. When FedEx gathered a group of executives to show them a video of their new planes, the huge capacity they have as described […]